“In Him also we have obtained an inheritance” (Ephesians 1:11)

As God, Christ has eternal traits which no created being can share, but as Perfect Man, He has the same rights we do. By God’s plan, as the Only Representative of the covenant of grace, He has no heritage apart from us. All the glorious consequences of His obedience unto death are the joint riches of all who are in Him, and on whose behalf He accomplished God’s will. The Greek word translated “saint” in the New Testament is “hagios”, which just means “holy”. It’s the same word used with “pneuma” to make God’s name, “Holy Spirit”. If Christ has made you holy, you’re legally entitled to every privilege He purchased with His blood. 

 He “entered for us, even Jesus, having become High Priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek” (Hebrews 6:20). He stands “in the presence of God for us” (Hebrews 9:24). You have no right to heaven in yourself, but because of Christ, you’re righteous, sanctified, and redeemed because “of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us … righteousness and sanctification and redemption - that, as it is written, "He who glories, let him glory in the Lord" (1 Corinthians 1:30-31). 

 If you’re kept from falling, it’s because you’re preserved in Christ; and if you’re perfected at the last, it will be because you’re complete in Him. In this way, Jesus is glorified and His Bride is blessed. The riches we enjoy because of Him are incalculable, but they are but a taste of the banquet yet to be enjoyed. "Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours: whether … life or death, or things present or things to come - all are yours. And you are Christ's, and Christ is God's” (1 Corinthians 3:21-23). 

 “There is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give to me on that Day, and not to me only but also to all who have loved His appearing” (2 Timothy 4:6).